[Comprehensive] Light and Shadow

Natsume still remembers that day when the witch god asked her what her wish was, the young witch god had an undisguised bright smile on his face, flamboyant and proud, as if trying to prove that he was an omnipotent god.

At that time, Natsume remembered that he replied that he hoped that the witch god could help fulfill the mother's wish, and then, what did the witch god say?

【I see, that mother's son will no longer have nightmares. 】

Natsume's body trembled slightly, when recalling this sentence, there was a bone-chilling coolness permeating from the back, every inch of bone seemed to be shivering with cold.

Yeah, no more nightmares.

Sakagami, who committed suicide by jumping off a building and is still in a coma, can no longer have nightmares.

Natsume raised his head slowly, looking at the condescending man in front of him, looking at his reaction with great interest, he was unable to replace the face of the witch god in his memory into the flirtatious and powerful man in front of him.

There was still a playful smile on the corner of Wu Shen's mouth, he lowered his head and slowly approached Natsume's ear, whispering softly like a sympathizer, "Natsume, don't you want to ask me?"

ask?what?

Natsume's mind was like a mess, and there were many questions that he wanted to ask, but he opened his mouth, but he couldn't say a word, or he didn't want to ask anything.

The Lord Sorcerer God who has been by his side has been deceiving himself from beginning to end, and those caring looks and childish behaviors are just a cover-up, and this nightmare curse imposed on him is probably part of the design of the Sorcerer God, for... …

【Have you ever thought that those humans didn't die just because that ugly monster had other purposes? 】

Natsume suddenly remembered what the Lord Wushen said, the reason why those humans didn't die was because the Wushen had other purposes, so it was the same for Aunt Tazi's curse, and this purpose must be related to her.

"What do you want from me?" As soon as the words came out, Natsume realized that his voice was trembling and weak.And the man holding his wrist in front of him slowly let go of his hand, and then his hand slowly slid towards his face, his fingertips touched the skin with a cold and shivering feeling, and gradually caressed Natsume's neck, his fragile It seems that the witch god can tear it apart with a little force.

The witch god smiled lightly and stroked the arteries of the young man's neck, as if with a little force with his fingertips, bright red human blood would spurt out from this fair skin, imprinting beautiful and sinful patterns.

This feeling of completely controlling a human life is very good, and the long-suppressed mood that has been silent for many years also surges up.

"Five days."

Natsume froze for a moment, looking at the witch god for no reason.

"I'll give you five days to figure out my purpose, and then you will bring me what I want."

At that moment, Natsume stared fixedly at the witch god, then pursed her lips and lowered her head, clenched her hands tremblingly, her eyes were reddish.

He is just a humble human being, so what is there to covet the gods?

Yes, but they are just tiny human beings, no matter what the gods want, they can easily get them from themselves, right?Why go to such lengths to do these things, to deceive yourself like this?

Even a god has no right to smash the sincerity bestowed by a human being.

I clearly, have always believed in Lord Sorcerer God so much...

"Five days later, if you don't give me what I want, then the lives of those high school students and the Fujiwara couple..." The witch god reached out and pinched Natsume's jaw, looking at the reddish eye sockets of the boy who was forced to raise his head, the witch god A frivolous smile filled the deep purple eyes.

"What on earth do you want me to do! Don't involve other people!" Natsume slapped the witch god's hand away, staring at the witch god with angry eyes, his hands trembling with anger.He thought that only Aunt Tazi, unexpectedly, even Uncle Fujiwara...

"These are all bargaining chips." The witch god pursed his lips and smiled at Natsume who was rarely angry. Family must be very important to Natsume.

If you use such a precious thing as a bargaining chip, you will also put an equally important item on the scale.

"Natsume, are you afraid of being lonely?"

Xia Mu's body trembled, and she watched in panic as the witch god grabbed her wrist again, and the pattern of the coquettishly blooming black flowers on the wrist gradually faded away, and finally disappeared, leaving only a piece of whiteness.

"Five days later, give me what I want, or make those chips disappear, but you will continue to live." The witch god felt Natsume's wrist trembling, chuckled and clenched a little more, and then held the boy's body Pulling himself closer, he finally whispered softly in the boy's ear.

"In that case, Natsume, you will really be alone."

Natsume's pupils trembled, watching the cherry blossoms falling in the sky at that moment, they were obviously scattered lightly, but they seemed to hit the soft heart heavily.The blood in the chest seemed to be suddenly stagnant, and the heart was powerless to beat alone.

Like drowning, struggling to look up at the cherry blossoms, but sinking into a deeper abyss step by step.

Natsume even forgot how he walked home from the shrine, and felt like he had forgotten himself every step of the way.When they got home, it seemed that they didn't even have the courage to look at the Fujiwara couple and say hello.

Alone in a dark room, curled up and hugging his legs, thinking, will the Fujiwara couple also have nightmares tonight?They must be afraid, because they have got into a dangerous curse because of themselves.

In fact, when the witch god asked his wish, if he hadn't heard the wish of the mother praying for his son, Natsume might have told the witch god—may Shigeru Fujiwara and Toko Fujiwara be happy and healthy until they die.

It's just that this is not important anymore, because the witch god has no intention of fulfilling human's wishes at all.

That being the case, what exactly does the witch god want?What the hell is there to get from me?

Natsume couldn't figure it out, but he could only continue to think about it, recalling all the encounters with the witch god until today in his mind.Were all witches and gods in disguise all along?Is the sorcerer I saw today the real lord sorcerer?

[Natsume, can you not leave? 】

In the night market, that young man had a slight smile on his mouth, his purple pupils were shining brightly against the bright lights, and the words full of expectation in his words were also deceiving himself?

Even without the curse, Natsume still had a sleepless night. At night, he vaguely heard a slight noise coming from the Fujiwara couple's room, and Natsume felt even more anxious inside.

When he saw the monster approaching him the next day, Natsume suddenly remembered that after the curse disappeared, the monster began to approach him without any scruples.When he was chased by the long-haired, white-robed, one-eyed monster on the way home from school, Natsume didn't want to go to the shrine of the shaman, so he could only run desperately in the grove.

"Huh? Natsume, what are you doing?" The two students walking on the path looked at Natsume who suddenly jumped out of the bushes in surprise.

"It's okay." Natsume raised her head out of breath, looked around and didn't find the monster, so she stood up frowning and patted the dirt on her body, telling her classmates that it was okay.

"You're covered in mud, are you okay?" Ryosuke looked at Natsume running out of breath, as if he was avoiding something, and it didn't look like he was okay.

"Well, is there a shrine near here?" Natsume nodded.

"For the shrine, remember that there is a room behind this forest." Ryosuke thought for a while, then pointed to the direction of the shrine.

"Thank you!" Natsume waved and ran in that direction.

"Stop! Give me back my name!"

Natsume glanced back at the youkai who were chasing after him, and immediately ran towards the shrine with all his might.After finally running to the shrine, he suddenly tripped and saw a broken hemp rope on the ground.

"This, could it be..." Natsume was stunned, then picked up the hemp rope.

"Finally unlocked, the enchantment that blocked me was unlocked."

Natsume's body shook, followed the sound, and suddenly understood something, and then immediately turned around to tie the rope back.

Hearing the increasingly ferocious roar of a beast, Natsume nervously looked at the vibrating box, and the black air continued to spread.Finally, the door of the box opened suddenly, and inside was a beckoning cat.

Natsume was completely stunned at the spot, was it the beckoning cat that made the sound just now?

Before Natsume could think about it, the wooden box exploded instantly, and the maneki cat loomed in the smoke, with orange and gray patterns on its round body, and a bell hanging around its neck, "Look To the point where I was unmoved, as a human being, you are really arrogant."

The beckoning cat looked at Natsume in front of him and just sat there, without showing a more surprised expression, just looked at himself calmly and vigilantly, the beckoning cat narrowed his eyes, "Say something."

"I'm used to it." Natsume calmed down seeing that the cat didn't intend to attack him.

"What an arrogant guy." The cat snorted coldly, with a bit of arrogance in his tone, but after looking at Natsume for a while, the cat was a little surprised, "Oh, you must be Natsume Reiko."

"Natsume Reiko is my grandmother." Looking at the cat approaching her, Natsume replied lightly.

"Grandma? You are Reiko's grandson. That's how it is. After a closer look, you are a man." The cat was a little surprised, but quickly accepted it, and took a closer look around Natsume.

"You don't need to look carefully to know." Natsume frowned.

"We are different from humans, we don't care much about gender." The cat answered patiently.

"You know my grandmother?" Natsume never thought that there would be a monster sealed in the shrine to know her grandmother, and even the monster chasing her outside called Reiko's name.

"Yeah, because she lives nearby. Reiko, she is a beautiful woman who can see youkai just like you. But because no one else can see her, no one understands her. Reiko is always alone. .” The cat sat on the ground and talked to Natsume seriously.

[Natsume, are you afraid of being lonely? 】

"Lonely, alone?" Natsume lowered his head, inadvertently recalling the words of Lord Wushen last night.

"By the way, did you know that Reiko made a book of friends after she started looking for youkai to amuse herself?" Cat squinted at Natsume.

"Book of Friends... um." Natsume was stopped by the cat's question, and nodded after thinking about it.But at that moment, a gust of wind blew the leaves down, and the cat in front of him suddenly disappeared.

Even if the cat disappears, this matter is still in Natsume's heart.After going back, Natsume found the relics left by Reiko's grandmother. There was a thick dark green book in the box. The account of friends was written on the book with a brush, and the book was full of pages similar to different spells.

"Hand over that, it's not something you're supposed to have."

Natsume turned his head and saw a cloud of black mist floating in the air, and the voice was the same as the beckoning cat he met at the shrine.

"Hand over the friend account!" At that moment, the figure of the beckoning cat appeared in the black mist, with a fierce light in its slightly narrowed eyes, and when it rushed towards Natsume, its figure suddenly became bigger, with a fox-like head It has a red cane pattern, and it seems to be biting Natsume with its mouth wide open.

At that moment, Natsume's mind went blank, subconsciously stretched out his hand and punched it hard.

The beckoning cat covered its head and rolled around on the ground, yelling that Natsume was not a polite human being.

"This book of friends is very important?" Natsume frowned, looking at the book of friends suddenly seemed to understand something.

"Of course!" The cat immediately jumped up from the rolling state, narrowing its eyes and looking at Natsume seriously, "So you don't know anything, as long as the name of the monster who lost to Natsume Reiko will be written on it, These papers are the proof that the monster surrendered to Reiko, and these papers are bound to be the book of friends."

"These are the names of monsters..." Looking at the strange spell-like paper, Natsume was a little shocked.

"When the person with the contract calls out his name, the monsters he calls must obey, so as long as he gets the account of friends, he can rule all the monsters written on it." The cat narrowed its eyes dangerously, staring at Natsume's expression.

Natsume lowered his head to look at the thick friend account, stroked the book with his fingers, and his golden-brown pupils gradually dimmed.

"So, does the god also want this book of friends?"